The suspicious pattern was flagged by Harvard chemistry professor Charles M. Lieber and physics professors Lydia Sohn of Princeton, Paul L. McEuen of Cornell, and others, who notified the relevant journals and BellLabs management of the similarities.

Bell Telephone Laboratories or BellLabs was originally the research and development arm of the Bell System[?], developing everything from telephone switches to specialized coverings for telephone cables, to the transistor.

BellLabs was 50 percent owned by Western Electric, and 50 percent owned by AT&T. The work done by BellLabs was broadly divided into three categories: research, systems engineering and development.

In 1933, Karl Jansky in his work for BellLabs investigating the origins of static on long distance communications, discovered that radio waves were being emitted from the centre of the Galaxy - the founding of Radio astronomy, though Bell did not pursue this, being more focussed on the problems of telecommunications.

The multidisciplinary BellLabs team used the tiny organic transistors, which are roughly a million times smaller than a grain of sand, to build a voltage inverter - an electronic circuit that converts a "0" to a "1' or vice versa.

The BellLabs researchers were able to overcome these hurdles by using a self-assembly technique and a clever design in which the electrodes were shared by many molecular-scale transistors.

BellLabs has generated more than 28,000 patents since 1925 and has played a pivotal role in inventing or perfecting key communications technologies, including transistors, digital networking and signal processing, lasers and fiber-optic communications systems, communications satellites, cellular telephony, electronic switching of calls, touch-tone dialing, and modems.

The mission of BellLabs Research, India will be to conduct fundamental research in scientific fields related to computing and communications software and to create the underlying technology innovations that will enable telecom service providers to deploy and manage high-speed, highly reliable networks.

This high-profile lab will be looking for researchers with core expertise in computer algorithms, networking (data, optical, wireless), network management, and data management and analysis and these professionals will be expected to carry out basic and applied research in disciplines related to computer systems and theory, and implement software prototypes incorporating novel research ideas.

BellLabs is a "national tragedy," says Charles Vest, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Some inside the Labs say that its new focus on applied research is a necessary change, given that scientists used to joke that they didn't know why the company was paying for their work in the first place.

BellLabs ranked each of the units, based on quality of research and relevance to the company.

BellLabs Europe NL is part of Lucent Bell Laboratories, the research and development arm of Lucent Technologies.

BellLabs Europe NL is actively participating in setting trends in standardization bodies leading to the development of prototypes and novel architectures for the deployment of multimedia IP services (Voice, Video, etc).

BellLabs Europe NL prototypes novel elements and technologies used for network management, which are able to manage and provision service across multi-technology, multi-vendor networks.

BellLabs is a pioneer in wireless research and many of its innovations form the backbone of today’s mobile networks.

BellLabs is designing strategies that protect Alcatel-Lucent's customers' critical infrastructures from disasters and attacks, developing products that help secure networks, databases and key information against hackers and corruption, and integrating features into Alcatel-Lucent’s products that make them some of the most reliable and secure solutions in the market.

BellLabs leverages its extensive expertise in computer science to produce a wide variety of both open source and licensable tools that aid software and application developers in creating custom applications and services more efficiently, productively, and accurately.

The Bell Labs-developed Unixoperating system made large-scale networking of diverse computing systems - and thus the Internet - practical; C and C++ are the world's most widely used programming languages.

BellLabs software is a key enabler of communications services, providing thousands of features in Lucent's switches and network elements; Bell Labs-developed network management and operations systems support billions of phone calls and data connections each day.

BellLabs was the first institution to receive the U.S. National Medal of Technology, which also has been awarded to eight individuals for their contributions at BellLabs.

Alexander Graham Bell was born on March 3, 1847, in Edinburgh, Scotland, and educated at the universities of Edinburgh and London.

This compelling biography of a true scientific visionary charts the course of Bell's remarkable life, showing how his early studies of speech and sound and his experience as an instructor of the deaf--the occupation that he considered to be his true life's work--led to his invention.

Bell was one of the cofounders of the National Geographic Society, and he served as its president from 1896 to 1904.

MURRAY HILL, N.J., Jan. 10, 2006 -- BellLabs, the research and development arm of Lucent Technologies, today announced it was awarded a technical Grammy by The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences for its contributions to the recording field.

Current research and development at BellLabs include audio as part of a blended multimedia experience; work on new digital compression technologies for delivering music and other medias over a wide variety of networks and devices; nano-based "micro-microphones" for dynamically directional, high-quality sound recording; and flexible and tunable hypersensitive recording arrays for improved sound capture.

"BellLabs continues to be laser-focused on communication innovations, the fruits of which continue to enrich our everyday lives by providing continual improvements for how we create, capture and enjoy digital entertainment such as music," said Sid Ahuja, vice president of Software Media Research, which oversees current multimedia, digital entertainment, acoustics and speech research efforts.

BellLabs paralleled IBM's building of the Mark I in its first steps into the large-scale computer world: both considered the computer as being far outside their normal sphere of business, but both entered that field and built computers that contributed to the war effort.

BellLabs built one more machine, the Model VI, which was a simpler version of the Model V. The Model VI was the only relay machine besides the Complex Number Computer that they kept for their own use; the others were for the military.

BellLabs had a lot of capital invested in their relay technology; they embarked on a plan of slow and gradual replacement by transistors as the relay circuits wore out.

Scientific fraud found at Bell Labs(Site not responding. Last check: )

By LINDA A. -- A series of extraordinary advances claimed by scientists at BellLabs are based on fraudulent data, a committee investigating the matter reported yesterday.

BellLabs is the research arm of Lucent, which makes telecommunications gear; the labs used to be part of AT&T. The research involved work by Schon and other scientists in the fields of superconductivity, molecular electronics and molecular crystals, which could bring improvements to computers and telecommunications in a decade or more.

The committee's 125-page report, submitted to BellLabs late Tuesday, concludes that Schon did not maintain proper laboratory records, and devices that might have been used to confirm his results were all either damaged or discarded.

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Sound Recording Research at Bell Labs(Site not responding. Last check: )

After John Stone from the Boston BellLabs arranged a demonstration of the de Forest tube Oct. 30, 1912, Arnold started his amplifier research project.

1925 - Henry C. Harrison at BellLabs developed a matched-impedance recorder to improved the frequency range from the previous narrow 250-2,500 cycles range of acoustic recorders to a wider range of 50-6,000 cycles using the condenser mic, tube amp, balanced-armature speaker, and a rubber-line acoustic recorder with a long tapered horn.

After a series of disappointing radio broadcasts by NBC of his orchestra in 1930-31 that failed to achieve the high quality of reproduction Stokowski was seeking, he helped BellLabs set up a test room at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia.

As soon as outside scientists called these similarities to the attention of BellLabs management, Cherry Murray, senior vice president of physical-sciences research, appointed a special committee to explore whether the figures are evidence of scientific misconduct.

He began applying oxide layers to the BellLabs crystals in Konstanz while waiting for his US visa, and he later continued to use the same sputtering machine because of his familiarity with it.

When asked whether it was appropriate to include members from BellLabs or related institutions, he answered that there are precedents for such members: The benefit of including them is to help other committee members understand the institution under investigation and to lend legitimacy for the researchers from that institution.

BellLabs Australia is now using the tool to reduce power consumption on two more designs.

BellLabs Australia, headquartered in Sydney, is home to the Wireless Research and Development facility, which is comprised of a research team of more than 20 dedicated research scientists and development engineers.

The lab's pure wireless research facility is the only one of its type in Australia, and the wireless research team alone has 28 patents to its credit (awarded, pending, or waiting to be filed).

"BellLabs is at the forefront of creating solutions that greatly enhance the communications capabilities of our government customers," said Rick Miller, senior vice president in Lucent's Government Solutions group.

Under one of the contracts, BellLabs and the New Jersey Nanotechnology Consortium (NJNC) at BellLabs are conducting research and developing new laser-based technologies for communicating huge amounts of high-speed data over long distances -- between earth and satellites, or from airplane to airplane, for example.

Mike Geller, vice president, BellLabs Government Communications Lab, and his team will aid in delivering a scalable prototype system using some of the new technologies Bishop and his group are developing.

BellLabs anticipates that the centre will employ approximately 40 researchers when it is fully staffed, adding to Lucent's current total of 575 employees in Ireland.

"BellLabs is admired throughout the world for its groundbreaking achievements in science and research that have truly shaped the way we live," said Mike Devane, managing director for Lucent in Ireland.

Backed by BellLabs research and development, Lucent uses its strengths in mobility, optical, software, data and voice networking technologies, as well as services, to create new revenue-generating opportunities for its customers, while enabling them to quickly deploy and better manage their networks.

As soon as outside scientists called these similarities to the attention of BellLabs management, Cherry Murray, senior vice president of physical-sciences research, appointed a special committee to explore whether the figures are evidence of scientific misconduct.

He began applying oxide layers to the BellLabs crystals in Konstanz while waiting for his US visa, and he later continued to use the same sputtering machine because of his familiarity with it.

When asked whether it was appropriate to include members from BellLabs or related institutions, he answered that there are precedents for such members: The benefit of including them is to help other committee members understand the institution under investigation and to lend legitimacy for the researchers from that institution.

Or has BellLabs conceded its preeminence in basic science, opting instead for the kinds of business-driven technological innovations that can come to term in months instead of years or decades; has the institution opted, in other words, against the lightness of the scientific and toward the gravitational pull of the commercial?

Lucky, who served at BellLabs for 31 years, is one of a number of "old-timers" who longs for "the golden years," believing that "the spirit has gone out of the place, a spirit whose passing people mourn."

But with a new president, Daniel Stanzione, just beginning his administration, Lucky and others wonder if BellLabs is not necessarily in for a downsizing or a restructuring that will see an increasing number of scientists attached directly to business units rather than remaining in independent research groups.